Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Heritage Learners, call for a new Society

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1) Subject:Arabic Heritage Learners, new Society

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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Nehad Shawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic Heritage Learners, new Society

Dear Colleagues,
Due to the growing of the heritage Language field .Many issues arise    
on giving my paper on :"pedagogies for Arabic Heritage Learners  
"2009 . I really was wondering if my colleagues share with me the view  
that AHL  differ from  AFL . Therefore new curriculum is to be  
designed,  Arabic corpus is in need .I suggested also teacher oriented  
versus student centered pedagogy. The focus here is on Heritage  
Learners of Arabic those who come from different background that AFL  
students..Placement test, assessment, validity of results. Most  
important accredited or not ,and does it fit into the K-12 education  
system?
Societies and Groups exist for different languages but none is  
targeted towards housing AHL our Arabic Heritage Learners. Hence , I  
thought of AHL Society. Why not share ideas to reach a consensus on  
how to plan language how to house AHL need in a structured form  
&content. Thank you .
NB: In my paper I suggested AHL short for Arabic Heritage Learners -  
also happens to be 3 grandchildren of mine

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